For 20 years, they were a couple – talented, devoted partners who individually and together reflected the rich cultural, professional and personal character of Newport, if not Rhode Island itself. Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rita Rogers is an abstract painter with a long list of academic credentials and has exhibited in New York and all […]
Brian C. Jones
Brian C. Jones, a regular contributor to What’s Up Newp, is a retired Providence Journal reporter (35 years) and is the co-founder of the Rhode Island Library Report. Brian resides in Newport, Rhode Island.
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When ‘faraway’ news lands at your front door: Newport’s gas crisis remembered, one year later
A YEAR AGO TODAY, Jan. 21, 2019, on the coldest day of the winter, natural gas was cut to thousands of people in Newport and Middletown. It was a crisis for lots of businesses, and many residents were forced from their homes, some not returning until service was restored a number of days later. For […]
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Brian C. Jones: In anxious times, should a ‘nice day’ be welcomed – or feared?
THIS PAST SUNDAY, Rhode Island had the day off – a day off from winter and a lot more. Temperatures reached 66 in Newport, and, at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, where Rhode Island records are set, the 70-degree reading was an all-time January record. What’s more, a potential spoiler that had been forecast – […]